Design of experiments has become an increasingly popular tool used by racing teams in professional motorsports. A race car has literally hundreds of adjustable parameters associated with it. Specialized racing engineers ...

A high power microwave antenna with true zoom capability was designed and constructed with the use of metal plate lenses. Proof of concept was achieved through experiment as well as simulation. This concept comprises a ...

Laser filament provides scientists a powerful tool to promote and guide lightning discharge. An ultraviolet (UV) laser provides unique advantages due to a low threshold of filament formation as well as long propagation ...

Recent improvements in silicon photonics have led to high quality factor planar resonant cavities that are well suited for a variety of applications where high sensitivity to
a physical parameter (i.e. temperature, ...

The Deep Lens Survey, a 20 deg2 optical survey, was used to search for two types of rare, very red objects: faint high-redshift (z > 5.4) quasars, which trace structure formation in the early Universe and can be used to ...

Galaxy clusters are of particular interest to astronomers because they provide test beds for probing the Cosmic Web which they occupy. Probing nearby galaxy clusters, such as the Centaurus Cluster, can lead to further ...

When faced with the integration of international markets, some small producers in the developing world respond with “low road” strategies that undermine wages and working conditions while others take the “high road” to ...

Strain energy driven deployable structures have recently become of high interest to the deployable space structures community. Made out of thin composite sections, these structures possess increased stiffness and stabilization ...

Currently there is a push for low cost, high energy materials with high operating temperatures that can simultaneously reduce cost, weight, and volume in the automotive industry. Economically feasible high performance ...

Efficient white LEDs are rapidly taking over many lighting and display applications, because of their improved color rendering and low power requirements. They are attractive replacements for traditional lighting from the ...

With dynamically and partially reconfigurable designs, it is necessary that the speed of
the reconfiguration be accomplished in a time that is sufficiently small such that the
operation of reconfiguration is not the ...

The post-genomic challenge was to develop high-throughput technologies for measuring genome scale mRNA expression levels. Analyses of these data rely on computers in an unprecedented way to make the results accessible to ...

Gamma and x-rays photons with the energy range of 10 to 100 keV are preferentially absorbed by high-proton-number (Z) elements at a rate approximately proportional to Z4. Long exploited for radiography in medicine, it is ...

Certain gods in Euripides’ Hippolytos and Herakles exhibit a high level of control over mortals. Each play has one primary god whose statements of will, identity, and offense control the actions of other characters. Each ...

In this thesis we discuss Petermichl’s characterization of the Hilbert transform as
an average of dyadic shift operators following the presentation by Thomas Hytonen
[Hyt].
A linear and bounded operator T in L2(R) that ...

For many visitors, Yosemite’s park boundaries symbolize a division between nature and civilization. On a busy day in Yosemite Valley, however, that divide seems nonexistent. Cars slither by, glinting in the sun. The valley ...

The purpose of this study is to explore the organizational communication experiences of some Hispanic employees. In this thesis, I employ a narrative analysis method, and share the interviews and standpoint of twelve ...

New Mexico has had the highest per capita drug overdose death rate in the United States, about 18 per 100,000, for more than ten years – 1995 to 2006. The USA’s rates for the same period are about 5 per 100,000. North ...

The history and legacy of Native American relationship with the U.S. government has been marred with policies on termination, assimilation, annihilation, and displacement of Indian communities. The Dawes Act, also known ...